Jurassic Park - What Happens When We Mess With Genes?

Just as horror movies depict an underlying message within society, science fiction movies depict a certain issue in society. And just as other movies from the past have progressed into the movies that exist today (as far as effects go), the fact that movies contain a key message hasn’t changed.

I analyzed Jurassic Park. The original movie was released in 1993 and the two sequels are fairly recent. Although science fiction isn’t supposed to “scare” the audience, some of the main elements that the movies are comprised of do poke fun of what does scare most people (spiders for example, are made larger than normal).

Jurassic Park is actually supposed to show how genetically altering [the wrong] species can be dangerous to society, especially if the alterations are done for reasons that have no real relevance to benefit society (other than to make profit). Although genetic alterations are solely made to dinosaurs in the movie, the message of genetically altering anything can be derived. And any genetic alterations could lead to harmful effects.

The fact that two sequels were made could relate to the fact that people don’t know when to quit, or for lack of a better word – understand – what is truly harmful to society, and how one small change to a gene could lead to big problems.

Science fiction shares the similar underlying theme that the fiction could become fact. And the science fiction movies may change slightly; as years continue to progress, and that will all be relative to the technology and current status of what is being done in the medical world (to genes).

Although Jurassic Park and the horror movies Scream and Saw have very thin connections, one connection is that both genres adapt to whatever is occurring within society. Horror movies have made a shift, based on the interest within people. According to the article with Saw, peoples’ interests are all about seeing gore and violence. Science fiction movies – like Jurassic Park – are no exception to adding elements of gore and violence to the films.

The only real difference between science fiction and horror films are the killers and ways of being killed. With horror movies, it’s all about people. With science fiction, it’s all about the environment.